How made. How made. YORKSHIRE SIDES. Yorkshire sides should be made the same as Cumberlands, with ribs out. IRISH CUT SIDES. Irish cut sides should be made the same as long clears, with the knucklebone left in. How cut. How made. How cut. How cut. How made. DUBLIN MIDDLES. Dublin middles should be cut from light, smooth hogs, the side must be thin; made same as Cumberlands, except that the leg should be cut off close to the breast. WILTSHIRE SIDES. Wiltshire sides should be made from smooth hogs; the shoulder, side and ham must be left together in one piece; the bladebone must be taken out, foot cut off, the shoulder same as the Cumber. land, hipbone taken out, not to be backstrapped, and the belly to be trimmed up even, the leg of the ham to be cut off above the joint. LONG HAMS. Long hams should be cut from the side by separating with a knife the hipbone from the rump, properly rounded out, foot unjointed at first joint below the hock joint. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE HAMS. South Staffordshire hams should be cut short, hipbone taken out at socket joint, hock unjointed at first joint below the hock joint. MANCHESTER HAMS. Manchester hams should be made in all respects like the South Staffordshire hams, except that the hipbone must be left in. THREE RIB SHOULDER. How made. Direction of packing. Requirements A three (3) rib shoulder should be made from smooth, fat hogs, cut three (3) ribs wide, squared at the butt, and in all other respects same as the Standard shoulder. UNIFORMITY OF BOXED MEATS. In packing meats in boxes, the pieces should be classified--the light, medium, and heavy separately, as nearly as practicable, in packages made to suit the different sizes. LARD. CHOICE LARD. Choice lard to be made from leaf and trimmings only, either steam or kettle rendered, the manner of rendering to be branded on each tierce. PRIME STEAM LARD. ments. Standard prime steam lard should be solely the product of the Require. trimmings and other fat parts of hogs, rendered in tanks by the direct application of steam, and without subsequent change in grain or character by the use of agitators or other machinery, except as such change may unavoidably come from transportation. It must have proper color, flavor and soundness for keeping, and no material which has been salted must be included. The name and location of the renderer, the date of packing, and the grade of the lard shall be plainly branded on each package at the time of packing. Prime steam lard of superior quality as to color, flavor and body may be inspected as "Prime Steam Lard, Choice Quality," and shall also be deliverable on contracts for "Prime Steam Lard." PACKAGES. COOPERAGE. Cooperage shall be made of well seasoned white or burr Oak, Materials. free from objectionable sap. BARRELS. For barrels, staves should be five-eighths (§) of an inch thick, Dimensions. twenty-nine (29) or thirty (30) inches long; heads eighteen (18) inches, one (1) inch thick in center, and three-eighths () at bevel; Hoops. hoops, hickory or white oak, to be hooped, not less than eleven-sixteenths (1). TIERCES. Tierces for hams, shoulders, beef or lard, should be thirty-two Dimensions. (32) inches long, with a twenty-one (21) inch head, or thirty-three (33) inches long, with a twenty and one-half (20%) inch head, staves to be chamferred at the head; quality of staves and hoops to be Hoops. the same as for barrels; staves three-quarters (34) of an inch thick; bead same thickness as for barrels; hooped eleven-sixteenths (11-16). Iron-bound tierces for lard, hams or shoulders shall be classed as Standard, if made in compliance with the requirements of this Rule, as to heading and staves, and hooped with not less than four (4) good hoops on each end. BOXES. and secured. Boxes should be made of sound common boards, reasonably dry, How made one inch thick, dressed on one side, not over three strips to each end, side, bottom or top; to have good, strong hardwood, whitewood or sap pine stays inside each corner, should be well nailed and strapped with birch, oak or hickory straps around each end, to lap three inches on the cover. Boxes should be nailed together with tenpenny nails, and the stays nailed in with eightpenny nails. FLAXSEED. REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR THE GRADING AND INSPECTION OF FLAXSEED. Weight per measured bushel. No. 1 Northwestern. No. 1. Rejected. No Grade. Manner of inspecting bulk seed. SECTION 1. The weight per measured bushel designated for each grade shall be that of commercially pure seed. No. 1 Northwestern Flaxseed--Flaxseed to grade No. 1 Northwestern shall be mature, sound, dry and sweet. It shall be Northern grown or have the usual characteristics thereof. The maximum quantity of field, stack, storage or other damaged seed intermixed shall not exceed twelve and one-half per cent. The minimum weight shall be fifty-one (51) pounds to the measured bushel. No. 1 Flaxseed-No. 1 flaxseed shall be sound, dry and free from mustiness and carrying intermixed not more than twenty-five per cent. of immature or field, stack, storage or other damaged flaxseed, and weighing not less than fifty (50) pounds to the measured bushel. Rejected Flaxseed-All damp and musty flaxseed and that carrying intermixed, immature or field, stack, storage or other damaged flaxseed in excess of twenty per cent, and weighing not less than forty-six and one-half (464) pounds, shall be graded “Rejected.” No Grade Flaxseed-Flaxseed that is wet, mouldy, warm or in a heating condition, or is in anywise unfit for temporary storage, or weighs less than forty-six and one-half (464) pounds, shall be graded "No Grade." Flaxseed that is smoky, burnt, or intermixed with burnt seed, shall not be known by any grade, but shall be inspected in the usual way to determine percentage of impurities, and shall be posted as "Burnt or Smoky Flax." SEC. 2. In sampling and inspecting flaxseed received in cars, in bulk, by railroad, a geared screw sampler shall be passed down through the seed at not less than seven points equally distributed. At each point an equal quantity of seed shall be taken, aggregating three pounds, which shall be deemed an average sample of car load. When car is inspected, cards in duplicate shall be written stating the result, the one tacked to grain door of car, the other attached to sample. Provided, always, should the car be so unevenly loaded, either to quality or impurity, as to leave a doubt in the mind of the Inspector as to correctness of sample, he will not card the car, but note the fact and report to consignee. SEC. 3. When Inspector receives notice to inspect flaxseed to or from bags he shall proceed as follows: As the bags are filled or emptied, he shall take from each bag the same quantity. The sample so taken shall be intermixed and three pounds taken therefrom, which shall be deemed an average sample of lot. Manner of inspecting Manner of inspecting warehouse SEC. 4. The inspection of flaxseed from elevator or warehouse to lake transportation shall be made by passing a grain trier of suit- seeds from able length through each draught after the seed has been elevated to vessel. to shipping scale hopper to be weighed, and drawing therefrom at each filling of hopper an equal quantity. From every ten samples so drawn an average sample of three pounds shall be taken. On completion of shipment from any elevator or warehouse, an equal quantity of flaxseed taken from the accumulated three pound samples, aggregating six pounds, shall be considered an average sample of shipment from that elevator or warehouse. inspecting warehouse to SEC. 5. The inspection of flaxseed from elevator or warehouse Manner of to railroad transportation shall be made by drawing with grain seed from trier, samples from eight points equally distributed in car, and taking from each an equal amount, aggregating three pounds, which shall be considered a legal sample. rail cars. testing. SEC. 6 To test flaxseed one pound of average impurity and Manner of quality shall be taken from the sample to be tested, and the impurity or foreign matter therein shall be removed as near as practicable by the use of two sieves, one with meshes three by sixteen, the other with meshes sixteen by sixteen. The per cent. of impurity and weight per measured bushel of the commercially pure seed shall be determined by the use of proper testing scales. The impurity shall be returned to the flaxseed which shall be enveloped and tagged with the result of test and numbered to correspond with records and kept on deposit sixty days. certificate of SEC. 7. The Inspector at the date of inspection shall issue a Form of certificate of inspection, setting forth grade (if rejected or no grade, inspection. the reason why), per cent. of impurity, weight per measured bushel, and fees. Also the name of railroad or vessel by which either received or shipped, the number and initial of car, and the number of gross bushels shipped from named elevator or warehouse. SEC. 8. The Inspector shall put on 'Change at the first session Postings of of each day, week and month a tabulated statement showing in Inspector's detail and totality as follows: The Daily-All inspections of flax seed since last report. The Weekly-The amount of flax seed in store. The Monthly-The inspected receipts and shipments during the month last past. SEC. 9. On notice from any elevator firm that they are about to receive from a certain railroad flaxseed for storage, the Inspector shall daily, in detail, report to said firm all flax seed inspected on said road. The inspection of all flaxseed shipped from elevator shall also be reported in full to elevator office. Notifications proprietors of from elevator seed about to be received. Annual statement of Inspector. Right of appeal. Inspector personally esponsible. Fees. Basis of sales of flaxseed. SEC. 10. The Inspector shall lay before the Board of Directors not later than the second Monday after the 2d day of January each year, a tabular statement of the entire inspected receipts and shipments of flaxseed the preceding year ending December 31st, with such information as may be of interest to the Board. Also, a financial report showing the receipts and disbursements of the office. SEC. 11. Any member of the Board of Trade interested shall have the right of appeal from the decision of the Inspector to the Committee on Flaxseed Inspection, by giving notice in writing and paying to the Secretary of the Board five dollars for each and every case appealed. If the inspection is sustained the five dollars shall be paid to the committee, but if not sustained to be returned. If practicable, the committee shall examine the seed upon which appeal has been taken. If not practicable, the Inspector shall furnish sample taken by him. SEC. 12. The Board of Trade, in establishing the regulations for the inspection of flaxseed and appointing an Inspector thereof, assumes no liability or responsibility for errors in judgment or otherwise on the part of the Inspector. SEC. 13. The fees for inspecting and certifying flaxseed shall be as follows: For each car or part of car, seventy-five cents; for each lot in car divided by bulkhead, fifty cents; for each one thousand bushels from elevator or warehouse to lake transportation, seventy-five cents; for each two bushel bag, one-half cent; for each four bushel bag, one cent; for each wagon load, sixteen and twothirds cents. Provided, however, that in no case shall the charge for the inspection of flaxseed be less than fifty cents. For convenience of consignors of flaxseed Section 6 of Rule XXI is herewith inserted: "All sales of flaxseed unless otherwise agreed, are made upon the basis of pure seed, that is: seed tendered or delivered on contracts may carry impurity or foreign matter, but must contain the sale quantity of pure seed, and for such pure seed only shall pay ment be required. |